Word: tk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaperman writing against his deadline he all too often has no chance to go back and get these extra facts. But a TIME writer, whenever he needs more complete information, types in "KOMING" or the two capital letters "TK" (meaning: goes on writing...
When the first draft of a story is turned over to the researcher there are sometimes as many as twenty "KOMING's"-and for each of them the researcher must find an answer. Often the bill for clearing up a single TK will run over $100, and it once cost us $300 just to make sure that the highest price ever paid for a magazine article up to then was $30,000 (to Calvin Coolidge, for a 1929 article in Cosmopolitan...